In the next issue of Spirou Magazine, the pre-publication of Spirou and Fantasio’s fiftieth adventure will kick off, in which scientist-gone-wrong Z goes all loony again. As BoDoi points out, it’s the final one for the creative team of José Luis Munuera and Jean David Morvan (with a little help from Yann for the story).
(the cover to Spirou Number 3672, October 2008)
On the Spirou website, a few previews and quite a large set of sketches from the album have been posted, some of which feature the Marsupilami! However, you won’t find the wonderful animal in the final story, as these sketches are only Munuera’s way of paying hommage to its creator and long-time Spirou artist André Franquin. Still, one can dream, and the book does seem to feature a souped up update of that jewel among cars, the Turbot (see below). A story preview can also be found on the Spirou site.
Wim Lockefeer lives in Belgium and when not pondering when books and comics became consumerist products instead of art writes extensively on comics culture and art; you can read more of his work on his own Ephemerist blog.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Turbot! It’s T*u*rbot, not T*a*rbot, for heaven’s sake! :-)